discipline

My discipline starts of great in the morning and goes downhill from there.
I get up every morning at 5am. First thing I do is sit on the cushion. No set time; sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 30. Just depends what kind of mood I am in.
Then I either go for a run (Mon/Wed/Fri) or grab the jump rope, turn on the NHK morning news, and jump for 15 minutes.
Back from the run (30-45 minutes, depending on distance) or after the jumps, the TV goes off and I exercise.
I try to do different muscle groups every morning and not hit the same group two days in a row. So this morning I did shoulders and back; lots of pull-ups and variations thereof, hand-stand push-ups (against a wall: I still cannot balance in a hand-stand. Yet!), etc.
Abs I do every day, usually 8 Minute Abs. Today I did a 2 minute plank just to warm up and remind myself how miserable planks are.
Yesterday was chest so I did dips and push-ups. Running and jumping takes care of my legs just fine, but maybe once a week I'll throw in some squats (100 or so) and some pistol squats just to keep myself honest.
Breakfast is 3-5 different veggies (today was red onion, garlic, tomato, Chinese cabbage, and eggplant) chopped up and tossed into a pan with a dash of sesame oil and heated a bit, crack in two eggs, cover, and let sit on low flame until the eggs are white with runny yokes.
As that cooks, put a carrot and whatever fruit there is (today was banana, passion fruit, peach, and blueberries) into the blender, dump in a bunch of cinnamon and a little honey, maybe some granola or nuts or cereal, and blend.
Lunch is whatever steamed veggies I put into the bento, plus whatever protein I had handy (natto, fake crab, tuna in water, etc.) and maybe something for fun like kimchee or leftover veggies that Hiroko made for dinner.
Dinner is same as lunch, just a bit less. Recently have not really been focused on carbs much. Will throw some in the blender in the morning, or maybe toast a bagel or something, but don't bother with carbs and lunch or dinner. No point in getting filled up on rice when there's veggies and protein to eat!
I snack on fruit, and if I am out of fruit I cruise up the street to the supermarket and load up. I eat lots of fruit. Lots. Monday I bought a bunch of bananas (five), four figs, three bunches of grapes, and four red apples. Gone by Wednesday.
No fruit on my desk today, and totally crushed my meat allocation this week by having yakiniku followed by Brazillian all-u-can-eat, so today I had not one but TWO fraps from bucks (new flavor: yuzu green tea!) and snacked on junk food at a small gathering to say farewell to a co-worker repatriating back to London.
Will finish off the day with some properly greasy Chinese food...and then get up tomorrow at five AM and do a nice big 7 kilo run. Which won't actually make up for all the debauchery, but is just enough to alleviate the extraneous guilt.

2 comments:

Myron said...

Right amount of fruit; veggies quantity more than adequate. You are, however, seriously low on the debauchery.
Love,
Papa

Unknown said...

If you don't already own one, I recommend a Vita-Mix for making those veggie/fruit smoothies. It's chops and blends way nice.
Every morning we make some serious smoothies. 「あ~まずい!もう一杯!」Kind like those old 青汁 CMs. Feel good after choking it down tho.

http://www.epic-co.com/vitamix/index.html

Shuzo